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Re:TallMountain – Stoic Virtue Ethics for an LLM Agent on Friday September 26, 2025 @03:51AM (#45383919)
Yes indeed. I was already poking around with GPT-3 sometime in 2022. I can’t even remember exactly when. Feels like ages ago now!
Re:TallMountain – Stoic Virtue Ethics for an LLM Agent on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:45PM (#45380225)
I think Raku is better than Python agent based systems for a few reasons:

- You don't have to think about concurrency or multithreading as in Python. There is no GIL to worry about. The built in support for things Supply and hyper-operators are all available in the language. It is really easy to hook up disparate parts of a distributed agent without having to think about async or actors libraries or whatever in Python.

- Something I prefer is the OOP abstractions in Raku. They are much richer than Python. YMMV, depending on what you prefer.

- Better support for gradual typing and constraints out of the box in Raku.

Python wins on the AI ecosystem though :)

I started messing around with this code several years ago and the LLM libs in Raku were not as rich as today. I thought I needed a specific type of LLM message handling structure that could be extended to do tool handling and some of Letta type memory management (which I never got around to!). I have some Python libs of my own and I ported them. I suspect if I was starting now, I would use what is available in the community. This version of TallMountain is the last of a long series of prototypes, so I never rewrote those parts.